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Honey cookies - old recipe of my mother

This is our traditional cookies for new year (since we dont celebrate Christmass) and the recipe is older than me and my mother used to do them always with this same recipe that i love. 



Ingredients:
2 eggs
1 tea cup vegetable oil (70 gr)
1 tea cup sugar
4 tbsp honey
1 tbsp baking soda (mixed with 1 tbsp vinegar)
cinnamon
flour

Mix all the ingredients until you get a sticky dough and shape your biscuits. 
Bake it in 180 degrees warmed up oven and then  stich the biscuits to each other using plum marmalade and let them rest for few hours (in our video we let them rest 1 day) and then decorate them with chocolate and ground walnuts. 


Please also check the video to see how we make them. 

Princess cake

 Ingredients:
4 eggs
1 cup sugar
1 cup yougurt
125 gr butter
2 cups flour
baking powder
vanilla
walnuts
cherry jam

For the topping:
4 egg whites
sugar

First whisk the eggs together with sugar and after that add the yogurt and butter. Mix the dryg ingredients together (flour, vanilla, baking powder) and start adding it to the eggs with a spoon and keep on mixing. When your cake dough is ready, put it on a tray, add some walnuts and bake it in 170 degrees.


At the time while waiting for the cake to be ready you can prepare the topping with 4 eggs whites and powder sugar.
When the cake is ready place some cherry jams on the cake and add the topping with a spoon. Bake it until the egg whites gets brown.





You can also watch the video to see how we have prepared it:

Bulgarian peach cookies recipe

This is my favourite cookies recipe because they look amazing. Recipe is not hard, but it takes some time to prepare.

Ingredients:

4 eggs

2 cups castor sugar

1 cup cooking oil

3/4 cup yogurt

1 ammonia soda

1 teaspoon baking soda

6 cups flour (you will need a bit more)

Because we did not use powdered sugar First beat eggs with sugar . And I did not put 2 cups , as in the recipe , because it will become too sweet. We put a little more than one cup. Then add the yogurt and oil and then stirring begin adding the flour. Adding ammonia soda to the part of the flour and mix before adding it to the dough.

In fact, the dough can take a little more than 6 cups of flour. Yet the dough will be soft and sticky . After kneading it allow it to rest at least 1 hour .

Then shape into small round cookies .

After you bake it's time to stick them in pairs. Basically there cream for this purpose , buto prefer jam, because t is yummy and more practical.

Once the cookies stick 2 is time to paint them and decorate.

To do this you need food dyes or beetroot.

Usually they are painted in yellow, and once side in red, but since we had only red dye we used only red.

And it's done.

You can watch the video to see how I make them :)

Bulgarian guvec recipe

Ingredients :

1 coarsely chopped onion

200-300 grams of chicken cut into small pieces

2 carrots - also cut into rings

bowl with mushrooms

salt

black pepper

savory

fresh parsley

homemade ketchup (or tomato puree )

4-5 larger potatoes

can of tomato and pepper

5-6 eggs

cheese

Part of the products are fried in a pan by first start with the onion , then chicken, mushrooms and carrots ( and salt). These steps are skipped them in the video for which I beg you to forgive me : P. Place a little water when  it's done and add chopped fresh parsley and pepper. Once this is mixed divide it equally in small clay pot called guvech (in our case 6). Leave some of the " broth " .  In that broth dissolve spoon of  homemade ketchup (or puree ) and add some water. Leave it aside . then we'll use it .

Peel the potatoes and cut them into large pieces and fry them . Once ready , add a little salt , pepper and savory . Distribute them in gyuvechetata .

Top put a can of tomatoes and pepper. It is prepared by mom, and it is boiled pepper in tomato sause. Then add and " broth " which have prepared earlier .

In the middle of clay pots form a "hole" where to put the egg yolk would otherwise escape sideways. And without adding  eggs and place them to the oven for 15 -20 minutes after  place the eggs and cheese cut into little pieces.

Bake another 5-10 minutes and gyuvechetata ready :)

See how it looks in the video below:

And here is the video of how we made it: